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From: Gorka Guardiola <paurea@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] JTAG
Date: Tue,  2 Nov 2010 10:30:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinzKhJ33Xotyt4-Gkv+36iiM+u_PEe0h_MmNMaV@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1011020216460.12637@tank.cs.indiana.edu>

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Bhanu Nagendra Pisupati
<bpisupat@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
> I am trying to understand the end objective of the JTAG work discussed in
> one of the threads last week (sorry, I'm behind on my mails!).
> There was one response that said: "The hope is that it would help debug
> usb/bt device issues on kw."; but beyond this I could not make out the use
> case for this work from the thread.
>
> Is the idea to use JTAG as a communication pipe on which to export virtual
> filesystems from within the device? Can somebody please elaborate?
>

The idea is to use JTAG to peek/set at the registers and pins and
maybe stop/start
the sheevaplug/guruplug. The JTAG on this machines can be accessed through
an endpoint in the usb/serial console.


--
- curiosity sKilled the cat



  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-02  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-02  6:32 Bhanu Nagendra Pisupati
2010-11-02  9:30 ` Gorka Guardiola [this message]
2010-11-02 10:28   ` Steve Simon
2010-11-02 16:01     ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-11-02 19:00     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
     [not found] <mailman.17024.1288718605.1513.9fans@9fans.net>
2010-11-03  5:57 ` Bhanu Nagendra Pisupati
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-02 16:45 Bakul Shah
2010-11-02 17:23 ` Nick LaForge
2010-11-02 20:00 ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-10-26 17:49 Jeff Sickel
2010-10-26 18:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-10-26 18:31   ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-26 18:49 ` Steve Simon
2010-10-26 19:10   ` EBo
2010-10-26 19:28     ` EBo
2010-10-26 22:05       ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-10-26 22:17         ` EBo

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